UMKC Law Faculty Recent Scholarship Driven by Justice

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Associate Professor Timothy E. Lynch
The ICCPR, Non-Self-Execution, and DACA Recipients' Right to Remain in the United States
34 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 323 (2020).
Winner of the 2019 Daniel E Brenner Faculty Publication Award

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Associate Professor Mikah Thompson
Just Another Fast Girl: Exploring Slavery’s Continued Impact on the Loss of Black Girlhood
forthcoming 44 Harvard Journal of Law and Gender (2020)
Read about the impact of Professor Thompson’s work as co-chair of the Missouri Supreme Court’s Commission on Racial and Ethnic Fairness
https://www.courts.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=151153

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Professor Jamila Jefferson-Jones
(with Taja-Nia Y. Henderson)
#LIVINGWHILEBLACK: Blackness As Nuisance
69 American University Law Review 863 (2020)
Read Professor Jefferson-Jones’ interview about her work

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Professor Paul D. Callister, Director Leon E. Bloch Law Library
What Is Meant by Freedom?
37 Pace Law Review 507 (2017).

 

 

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Professor Sean D. O'Brien
Strange Justice for Victims of the Missouri Public Defender Funding Crisis: Punishing the Innocent
61 St. Louis U. L.J. 725, 726 (2017)

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Associate Professor Jasmine Abdel-Khalik
Scènes à Faire As Identity Trait Stereotyping
2 Business, Entrepreneurship & Tax Law Review 241 (2018).
Read more of Professor Abdel-Khalik’s work on Intellectual Property Law and Identity

 

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Curators’ Professor and Associate Dean Nancy Levit (with Naomi Cahn, June Carbone)
Gender and the Tournament: Reinventing Antidiscrimination Law in an Age of Inequality
96 Texas Law Review 425 (2018).
Read more of Dean Levit’s scholarship on discrimination here

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